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The eighth sort is likewise tender. It requires 

 to be treated in the same manner as the Jacobaea 

 Lily. It is found to increase pretty fast by off- 

 sets. When properly managed, it usually flowers 

 in the winterseason,especiallyif the pots be placed 

 in a stove of moderate temperature ; and as at this 

 period there are but few flowers in the open air, 

 it is more valuable on that account as an orna- 

 mental plant for the stove. 



The ninth species is still more tender: it must 

 of course be placed, during the winter season, in 

 a stove where there is a moderate share of 

 warmth ; but it should not have so much water 

 as the Jacobsea Lily. It may be raised from 

 offsets. 



The tenth species, or Guernsey Lily, is sup- 

 posed to have come originally from Japan ; but 

 has been long cultivated in the gardens of Guern- 

 sey and Jersey; in both of which it seems to 

 thrive and succeed as well as if it were in its na- 

 tive soil. From those islands its roots are an- 

 nually sent to the curious in different parts of 

 Europe. 



The root-bulbs are generally sent to us in June 

 and July ; but the sooner the bulbs are taken out 

 of the ground, after their leaves decay, the better 

 they are; for though the roots, which are taken 

 up when their flower-stems begin to appear, may 

 flower, their flowers are not so large, or their 

 roots so good afterwards, as those which are re- 

 moved before they have sent out fresh root-fibres. 



On obtaining the roots, they should be planted 

 in pots filled with fresh, light, sandy earth, well 

 mixed with a little very rotten dung, to the depth 

 of two or three inches, and then placed in a warm 

 situation ; or what is better, in a moderate stove- 

 heat, the earth being refreshed with water occa- 

 sionally; but they should not have too much, as 

 it would rot their roots, especially before the 

 stems rise. About the middle of September, the 

 more vigorous roots will begin to show the buds 

 of their flower-stems, which are commonly of a 

 red colour ; therefore these pots should be re- 

 moved into a situation where they mav have the 

 full benefit of the sun, and be sheltered from wet, 

 and strong winds; but by no means too near a 

 wall, or under glasses, which would draw them 

 up weak, and render them less beautiful in their 

 blow. At this season they should be gently re- 

 freshed with water occasionally, when the wea- 

 ther is warm and dry. 



As soon as the flowers begin to open, the pots 

 should be removed from the open air, to prevent 

 the flowers from being injured by too much 

 moisture ; but they must not be kept too close, 

 or be placed in situations too warm, as they would 

 occasion their colour to be less lively, and hasten 

 their decay. The flowers of this plant often 



continue in beauty, when managed in the above 

 manner, a full month: and though they have no 

 scent, from the richness of their colour, they are 

 justly esteemed as flowery ornamental plants. 



When the flowers are decayed, the leaves be- 

 gin to shoot forth in length, and, if sheltered 

 from severe cold, continue growing all the winter 

 season ; but they must have as much free air as 

 possible in mild weather, and be covered only 

 in severe rains or frosts; for which purpose a 

 common hot-bed frame is the best, as the glasses 

 maybe taken oft'eonstantly ever)- day in dry open 

 weather, which will encourage the leaves to grow 

 strong and broad ; whereas, when they are placed 

 in a greenhouse, or not exposed to the open air, 

 they are apt to grow long and slender, and have 

 a pale weak aspect, by which the roots become 

 weak, seldom producing good flowers. 



The roots should be transplanted every fourth 

 or fifth year, about the latter end of June or be- 

 ginning of July, into fresh earth ; but not oftener 

 removed, as that would retard their flowering. 



The offsets may also be taken off, and planted 

 out into different pots ; which, in three years time, 

 mostly produceflowers. Consequently, aftera per- 

 son is once stocked with these roots, he may in- 

 crease them,so as to have a constant supply of blow- 

 ing roots, without being at the trouble or expense 

 of sending to the above places annually for them ; 

 and the roots, thus preserved, will flower stronger 

 than those which are brought from thence, as 

 the inhabitants of those islands are not very curi- 

 ous in cultivating them; — their usual method, 

 according to Miller, being to plant them at a great 

 distance in beds of common earth, where they 

 let them remain for many years ; in the course 

 of which they produce such a number of offsets 

 that one single cluster has frequently contained 

 above a hundred roots ; by which means those 

 which grow on the inside are so much com- 

 pressed by the outer roots, that they are perfectly 

 flattened : and from the number of roots growing 

 in each cluster, they are all rendered weak, and 

 unfit to produce such large stems of flowers as 

 those which have grown singly and are of a 

 spherical form. As when a person is possessed 

 of a great number of these roots, it will be trou- 

 blesome 'o preserve them in pots, a bed should 

 be prepared in the following manner, in some 

 well sheltered' part of the garden. In doing this, 

 a third part of fresh virgin earth, from a pasture 

 ground, which is light, should be provided, with 

 an equal portion of sea-sand, to which should be 

 added rotten dung and sifted lime rubbish, of 

 each an equal quantity. With this earth, when 

 well mixed and incorporated, a bed should be 

 made about two feet thick, raising it about four 

 or live inches above the surface of the ground, 



